Maxine Peake Quotes

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

Maxine Peake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 14, 1974

Topics

ActingTalkMeanGetOnlyHow

I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.

Jeremy Clarkson

MotherChildrenYouI CanSayTrue

Coming to New York to go to school and being very far away from my own family, I definitely found myself piecing together my sort of chosen family here, and I have friends that I'm still very close with, that we all met at the same time and have become a huge part of each other's lives.

Andrew Rannells

FamilyTimeMyselfTogetherSchool

I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.

John Niven

QueenAmazingSomeoneYouGoNow

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

Robert Scheer

BestSmartMatterIntentionsSeem

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

Robert Sternberg

SchoolPeopleStupidThinkThought

Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

Jeb Hensarling

CongressKnowRightPayOrderDeals

I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, 'Wow, I want to be like that.'

Michael Jai White

ManSmartStrongBlackRemember

I like to say time is a luxury.

Travis Kalanick

TimeLuxurySayLike

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

Matt Blunt

BudgetYouTaxGeneralAssembly

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

Roy Blunt

PathEnergyAmericanMoreRelate

I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.

Debbie Ford

LoveBeautyGodBelieveGiftSee

I don't think I'm on the studio president's list: 'The movie's going to star Cannavale.' That's not happening.

Bobby Cannavale

ThinkPresidentStarGoingHappening

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